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Iowa CAFO cited in EPA compliance orders
Administrative compliance orders were issued to six concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The operations were...
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2012 is GOP’s ‘one chance’ to repeal health care reform, says Bachmann
SARASOTA, FLA. — U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann concluded a weekend of Florida events with a rally cosponsored by the local Republican Party and a handful of tea party and 912 groups, repeating her calls...
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Little climate benefit in switch from coal to natural gas, says study
Natural gas may be a cleaner-burning energy source than coal, but making the switch isn’t likely to slow global warming any time soon, according to a new study in the journal Climatic Change. Reducing...
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Bettendorf company pays $50K for oil leak
Sivyer Steel Corporation of Bettendorf has agreed to pay a $54,786 penalty and clean up residual used oil that may have leaked from its storage tanks as part of settlement with the U.S. Environmental...
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EPA to be sued for missing ozone deadlines
The environmental law firm Earthjustice filed a notice of intent to sue (pdf) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for not adhering to the Clean Air Act and identifying communities endangered...
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Gingrich plays well with social conservatives at Des Moines event
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich seemed to steal the show Saturday evening at a presidential forum hosted by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, focusing mostly on economics as several other...
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GOP candidates go after EPA, regulations
Republican presidential hopefuls attacked the Environmental Protection Agency during a social conservative event in Iowa over the weekend, and said the United States should allow for more production of...
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EPA administrator takes critics to task
Lisa Jackson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has a few things to say to Republicans hoping to curtail or eliminate the agency and citizens observing the political spectacle....
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Cain ad makes false claims, EPA says
A television ad from Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, running statewide on radio and the FOX News Channel, erroneously claims the Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate methane...
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Cain campaign: Farmers know more about regulations than EPA
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection...
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